The limits of judging the unbuilt Malta class

The Malta class is easier to praise than to criticize because no completed ship ever exposed the design to fleet service. A competent result seems plausible because Stanley Goodall and the Royal Navy had extensive carrier-design experience. Even so, teething troubles and difficult later conversions could have emerged in ways that the surviving drawings cannot disclose. This caveat separates the known dimensions and planned systems from claims about how the ships would actually have performed. It should remain attached to the stream's Malta counterfactual when that scenario is carried into later decades.